Interviews News Instrumental invested over $4m in independent artists in H1 2021. Now it’s a distributor too. After Tencent investment, UK-born firm says it wants to become the world's "leading growth team for independent artists"
Analysis News From Universal’s scrubbed SPAC sell-off to Warner’s Doug Morris label buyout: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter
News Universal Music Canada inks JV with management company The Core Entertainment Joint venture launches with Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Steven Lee as its first signing
News German promoter FKP Scorpio makes raft of new hires in the UK FKP Scorpio UK office launched late last year
News From Jay-Z selling TIDAL to Hipgnosis and Primary Wave’s catalog buys: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
Interviews Adam Leber nearly gave up on artist management. Now, with Lil Nas X and Miley Cyrus’ help, he’s smashing it. "There has to be a reason you're willing to base your life around an artist's – because that's what this job is."
News Nikki Cox and Storme Whitby-Grubb join Red Bull Records leadership team Nikki Cox appointed Chief Marketing Officer, Storme Whitby-Grubb named Chief Creative Officer
News Virtual events platform Looped raises $7.7m from investors including Shawn Gee and Gee Roberson amongst others Company has also named former Def Jam exec Faisel Durrani as Co-CEO
Interviews ‘Latin music artists are not getting the recognition they deserve.’ MTW Agency CEO Diana Dotel discusses the challenges that come with working with Latin music and biggest lessons learned across her career
Interviews ‘Artists need to pay attention to their legacy and be very specific about it.’ "Lawyer-manager" John Branca on fighting for artists' rights, and the Michael Jackson story
News Deviate Digital makes series of hires and promotions as part of UK expansion Stef Pascual appointed as the company's first Strategy Director
News Liberty Media offshoot raises $575m to buy huge company – will it be in music? Company started trading on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange under the symbol LMACU on January 22
Company: Triller Based in Los Angeles, Triller was launched in 2015 and is led by Chief Executive Officer Mike Lu
Company: Instrumental Instrumental is an A&R platform that sold a minority stake in its business to Tencent in 2020
News Zeon Richards joins experience marketplace Pollen as Head of Hip Hop Partnerships Exec was previously Head of A&R at Ministry of Sound Recordings